ALFREDO ACETO

Never Curl The Tongue

ALFREDO ACETO

Andersen’s is pleased to present Alfredo Aceto’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, titled Never Curl The Tongue.

The exhibition is as a stepping stone into Aceto’s forthcoming exhibition at Andersen’s, opening in 2023 and features never exhibited works from the series Bocca con Matita. The exhibition will be on view through 1 April 2022, both online and offline at Rentemestervej 49, 2400 København NV.

Alfredo Aceto raises the question of the body and its metamorphoses. Recently forced to re-educate the muscle of his tongue, he experiences the return to oral learning yet acquired during his youth. This orality obtained so distantly seems to be innate since its second nature application absorbs the memory of initiation.

The bronze sculptures Bocca con Matita takes up one of the exercises invented by Doctor Daniel Garliner to re-educate the tongue through the myofunctional therapy. If the body was, until then, present by writing, he is taking a preponderant role also addressed by his sexualization and his fetishism. The mouth is forced to coexist with the formal rigor of the pencil that brings back the question of writing, but this time blocks the development of ideas and speeches.

Simulating bodily presences and absences, these works lend themselves to an environmental use where their position determines a horizon, a line defining a space and a rhythm.

Bocca con Matita play on the illusion of matter by pairing two bronze objects that conceal their substance.

As a result, while in “minimalist” solutions, these works might seem to “shift the origin of the meaning of the work to the outside”, since they aim to define a space in phenomenological terms, they also describe a movement that turns inward, into its own fabric, affirming the autonomy of its own difference by virtue of the “possible worlds” that accompany them. Aceto takes objects back into their deepest secrets and, at the same time, he exposes them to the perils of space and time. Together with other objects.

Alfredo Aceto was born in 1991 in Torino (IT). He lives and works between Lausanne (CH) and Torino (IT).
A former student of Philippe Decrauzat and Valentin Carron at ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne), Alfredo Aceto has exhibited his work in many international surveys, including Museo del 900 (Milan), Kunsthaus Glarus (Glarus), Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (Geneva), Istituto Svizzero (Milan), Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Milan), DOC! (Paris), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (St. Gallen). In June 2022 his work will be presented at the Swiss Art Awards (Basel).

Photo credit: Malle Madsen (Installation views)

Photo credit: Julien Gremaud (individual shots)